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President Trump's image is everywhere, even on illicit drugs found in the Netherlands. (Jim WATSON / Getty Images)

Trump bans CNN, others from White House

Troy Farah

Critics call it an "unprecedented assault on press freedom"

Savanna Stone (Illustration by Salon / Image courtesy of Zandland)

TikTok tradwife tainted by Tate tie

Melanie McFarland

Savanna Stone says women shouldn't vote. A YouTube doc reveals who was really behind her rise

Duncan Sheik (Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)

Duncan Sheik wasn't a one-hit wonder

Kelly McClure

From "Girls" to "The Sopranos," Sheik's music stayed in cultural conversations

Mia Kirshner in Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" (Rolf Konow/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

The curious case of “The Black Dahlia"

Melanie McFarland

20 years after Brian De Palma's misfire, let's apply some hindsight to pop culture's hottest cold case

Randy Marsh confronts his family about the new e-bike gangs in South Park, before heading to Jamba Juice (Comedy Central © Comedy Partners. All Rights Reserved.)

"South Park" saw our food fights coming

Ashlie D. Stevens

For decades, the show has skewered the systems that turn eating into bureaucracy, branding and culture war

A woman entering a voting polling place. (YinYang / Getty Images)

America, this is who we are. Now vote

Brian Karem

Despite the corruption and debasement of the Trump years, this election offers a fresh start

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 15, 2026. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

How Kash’s attack dog act helps Trump

Amanda Marcotte

The FBI director’s testimony is part of a larger MAGA strategy to sow cynicism

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters outside of his Capitol office on Sept. 16, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Johnson is the GOP's top scaredy-cat

Alex Galbraith

Facing an impeachment vote on Pete Hegseth, Johnson fled Washington. We should have seen it coming

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a press conference at the Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue on July 22, 2026 in Austin, Texas. The discussion comes as data centers have emerged as a major political issue in Texas, with Gov. Greg Abbott calling for stronger oversight of their expansion. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Dems in Texas are truly competitive

Eleanor Klibanoff - The Texas Tribune

Democrat James Talarico is consistently leading in the polls over Ken Paxton, which is unheard of in recent decades

Tom Cruise (XNY/Star Max/GC Images/Getty Images)

Tom Cruise wants the last word

Coleman Spilde

In his not-so-wide-ranging GQ profile, Cruise stays convincingly on-message

Inde Navarrette (Brianna Bryson/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

The men who think actresses owe them

Kristen Lopez

Jeff Sneider's threats against Inde Navarrette fit a decades-old pattern in entertainment media

Sen. Mitch McConnell arrives for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2026. It was his first public appearance in more than 90 days. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Mitch is back and it’s terrifying

Troy Farah

McConnell returns from three-month absence, to DC's surprise. But many questions remain

Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson at the Formula One Grand Prix of Monaco,  June 7, 2026. (Arnold Jerocki / FilmMagic)

Don Jr.'s wedding, a corruption story

Sophia Tesfaye

ProPublica reveals that a Russian oligarch paid for Bahama nuptials. Right-wing media is silent

President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Trump says he's respected. World says no

Heather Digby Parton

America's global reputation is in tatters. That's not all Trump's fault, but he sure made it worse

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Suing Ken Paxton over abortion access

Shefali Luthra - The 19th

The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions

Ed Sheeran performs  at TD Garden in Boston, Dec. 14, 2025. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Sheeran's a coward: Can you blame him?

Alex Galbraith

The Macklemore-Kraft saga on his stadium tour shows the thin line artists walk

Author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain (Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images)

Bourdain couldn't quit the kitchen

Francesca Giangiulio

Reissued this summer alongside the "Tony" movie, his crime novels prove some habits stick

Sydney Sweeney (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/getty images)

Sydney Sweeney has no endgame

Coleman Spilde

The actress' racy ads for the sports betting site Novig leave her career trajectory in peril

Donald Trump walks on stage during the first day of the 2026 Republican "midterm convention" in Dallas, Sept. 9, 2026. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

White House is terrified of Trump videos

Amanda Marcotte

Natalie Harp’s enormous bag and unflattering photos of Trump's rear end fuel attacks on a reporter

(Yuuji/Getty Images)

Are we in the AI end times?

Troy Farah

Anxiety over the dangers of artificial "intelligence" says more about human nature than about the machines

An aircraft alledgedly carrying US businessman Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland on January 7, 2025. Donald Trump Jr's plane landed in Nuuk, Greenland, where he is making a short private visit, weeks after his father, US President-elect Donald Trump, suggested Washington annex the autonomous Danish territory. (Emil Stach / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s Arctic adviser's Russia ties

Heather Vogell - ProPublica

Thomas Dans has backed taking over Greenland and advocated reestablishing ties with Russia, where he has business

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie lost the Republican congressional primary after he was targeted by a political smear ad generated by AI (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Massie aims to impeach Hegseth over Iran

Troy Farah

Though the move is not expected to succeed, it could have broad impact on the upcoming elections

Hide your vegetables. You're an adult (twomeows / Getty Images)

Hide your vegetables. You're an adult

Ashlie D. Stevens

Put cheese on the broccoli. Hide zucchini in brownies. You’re still eating the vegetables — and that counts

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaks  in Dallas on Dec. 19, 2025. (Omar Vega/Getty Images)

Jasmine Crockett praises Chris Brown

Shefali Luthra - The 19th

We're breaking down why people online are mad at the Texas Democrat

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